Tv Watching Is Harmful for Children

All about the harmful effects of television which are increasingly seen among young children.

Over the last several decades, a number of studies have shown that there are several ways that television can be harmful to the mental and physical health of children. TV should be labeled as a culprit in creating murderous children. TV programs promote negative behavior and children tend to display this violent or antisocial behavior. As a result, the innocence of children gets washed away at a small age.

Most of the things on the television are not true and are non-educational. Small children without knowing about reality, implement these wrong things in their life. TV viewing leads to poor school performance. More time spent in front of television means less time spent on homework, outdoor and social activities.

TV makes children sedentary and inactive. Late night TV watching causes nightmares and acts as a hindrance in concentrating in school and solving problems. Most of the children watch cartoon channels. They become addicted to such channels and waste their precious time. TV is bad for our eyes and it also leads to obesity. There is a strong relationship between TV viewing and obesity. Children take in too many calories in the form of junk food which is advertised on the television and do not burn enough calories sitting still rather playing in the open air.

TV viewing also leads to the buy me syndrome which is the result of advertisements shown on television. Parents of young children often have to deal with the commercial influence of television every time they take their children to the market. Some parents cannot afford to buy such toys which pressurise the parents. Therefore, TV viewing should be controlled. So the next time you switch on the television, do think about the harmful effects of television.

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ChildrenWatching Television
I know majority of people realize children spending all their time watchingTV is not good for them. Some consider it a good thing so they have a “babysitter” or think it is good because of educational purposes. There are many different studies done on children and the amount of television they watch. On one website I saw that one study showed children who watched a lot of TV grew up aggressively and ended up in jail, in the next sentence it says there are new studies showing it can improve kids behavior.
Some doctor’s argue that TV can make children antisocial and aggressive. Also, they say that children will imitate what they see on TV so parents should be aware of that. The study was done on 1,000 different children and followed from birth to the age of twenty-six. Studies also say TV has no educational benefits for children under two and they need more interaction with humans. It also says it takes away time from children to develop language, motor and social skills and that these skills are critical for development in the first two years. Another study shows that children who watch TV at pre-school age show poorer reading skills at the age of 5. A doctor who did...

...Infants WatchingTV Can Be Harmful
My sister-in-law and I have children that are two weeks apart in age. I was visiting with her when her baby boy was 6 weeks old when she started showing me how much her baby liked to watch TV. She had him on a blanket, on his stomach in front of the TV; he was holding his head up and was intensely watching it. I watched as he stared at the TV, he was interested and fixated for a long time. I wondered what it was that he was interested in since he could not comprehend what he was watching. Was it the flashing lights, the quick scene changes? I looked at my own 8-week-old daughter who showed no interest at all in watchingTV and wondered about the effects of TVwatching for infants. I wondered if it actually could be harmful in some ways.
Professor Dimitri A Christakis, from the Seattle Children’s Research Institute and the University of Washington believes it is harmful and is warning parents to limit the amount of television children watch before the age of two. He says, “The weight of existing evidence suggests the potential for harm and I believe that parents should exercise due caution in exposing infants to excessive media.”
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...In my opinion, TV viewing has really harmed the children. Their mind is the most impressionable one. Anything wrong printed on it, is difficult to remove. I submit that the most telling effect is on children’s health. Many have to wear spectacles because of weak eyesight due to continuous viewing of TV. The regularity of life suffers a lot. Homework is its victim. Studies are not done properly to save time for TV.
I feel strongly that TV viewing exposes the children to an easy life as it is seen in films. But outside, the life is different. Children think that life is like that as is seen in films etc. So this causes frustration at a later stage. The gap between dream (things are shown materializing in a moment in the programmes more popular with children as in a dream) and reality increases and results in disillusionment. So TV viewing is not helping children in making them as responsible and understanding adults. In my opinion, we are giving them an environment which will drift them away from the realities of life. I submit that life is not simply a bed of roses. This will lead to frustration and disillusionment. We, in fact, are weakening the very foundation of our young India by exposing it to TV viewing.
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...﻿Children are spending way to much time watching television instead of going outside and running in the sun or playing with their friends. So T.V is a bad hobby being introduced to small children that later on that will be their weakness when trying to study or do homework. It will soon hit them as an obstacle and they will eventually start getting bad grades, becoming violent and rude, and maybe even dropping out of school.
Violent kids, talking bad, rude, flunkers, ect. Those are all examples of how your children will become with bad habits. Do you parents really want children to be? Don’t think so, research shows that children that spend numerous amount of time watching T.V by thy time that they graduate they will have spent more time watching Television than in classroom. Yes I know that television is entertaining you and may sometimes relive you from stress you may have, yes its like an escape from all your school problems and work. But, I strongly believe that children as well as adults shouldn’t b spending excessive amount of time on television they will become what we like to call “couch potatoes.”
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...TV Is Harmful To Children
Nowadays, TV has become standard pieces of equipment in most home, and watchingTV has become a common activity for most people. Children like watchingTV when they stay at home. Although there are many useful programs for children and many people believe that TV is bad for them for three reasons.
First of all, some programs are not suitable for children to see. For example, there are many police stories on TV. People were killed with guns, knives, and many other cruel means. Some children think that these could happen to them at any time. They can become frightened. In addition, some youngsters might think violence is a common part of life because they see it very often on TV. They may begin to act out the violence and hurt themselves or their playmates.
Second, TV can affect children’s reading ability. Reading required skills and brain processes that watchingTV doesn’t. If children watch TV for too many hours, they will not have time to read. Besides, they might see reading is boring.
Finally, TV may affect children’s schoolwork in other ways. For instance, when they spend too much time on TVwatching, they might get...

...Television and Children. YourChild Development & Behavior Resources. University of Michigan Health System. August 2010. Web. 1 Nov. 2011. .
This article is about television the monumental effect it has on children. The articles also touches down on how it effects brain development, causes aggressive behavior, traumatizes kids, effects performance in school, influences attitudes, and how it effects child’s health. The author does a good job of using facts, statistics, medical papers, and other web address to prove her point. This article shows how something as simple as TV can have both long and short term effects on children and their behaviors.
The author is simply shedding light into the world on Americas #1 baby sitter, television. It is unbiased data and is based on well supported data. Her main object is to show the studies done on children who watch TV and its effects to warn parents, while stating some positive effects to show that TV isn’t entirely bad.
This source could be used for writing a paper on the psychological, heath, social, or school risks TV on children. This may also be beneficial to parents who are looking for the best way to balance TV in the lives of their children.
Massimo, Joseph. Fast-paced television bad for children. A Student Publication of the University of...

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Effects of ChildrenWatching Too Much Television
How many hours a week do you think you spend watching television? According to a study done by the A.C. Neilson Company, the average American spends four hours watching television (“Television”). Generally, children watch even more than four hours a week (“How TV Affects Your Child”). Watching this much television can have serious impacts on a child’s health and development (“Colina”). It also shows a lot of things that most people would not consider being appropriate for children. Another problem that arises when children spend this much time in front of a television is that they don’t do as well in school.
If children are spending too much time in front of the television, then they are risking serious health problems. The major one that comes to mind is obesity. A recent study found that eleven percent of children between the ages of six and seventeen are obese. This is more than twice the amount of children that were obese in the 1960’s (“Television”).What is so different between the children of today and the children of the ‘60s? The amount of time watching television is the main problem; it means that for the amount of time they are watching television, they are...